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Old oil well under Poets Park Ladera Ranch short filled at 351 ft during 2001 re-abandonment DOGGR required cement squeezed past blockage to protect

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Old deep drilled Exxon Mobil oil well near/under what became Poets Park Ladera Ranch short filled at 351 feet during re-abandonment 2001 due to blockage, DOGGR directive required  cement to be squeezed past the blockage on outside of casing down to bottom of oil well to protect the lower 8365 feet, report indicates they did not do this!  DMB Ladera LLC kept their dirty little secret covered up for 25 years of the  poorly re-capped  oil wells, until now. Story behind cancer cluster in Ladera Ranch CA appears to link to old oil wells found underground and possible benzene vapors in the sewer system, any usable drinking water has to be piped in. There does not appear to be a link from the old oil wells underground to the Ladera Ranch drinking water, they are totally separate. The drinking water for Ladera Ranch is stored in underground concrete lined reservoirs. There is no major usable drinking-water aquifer directly beneath Ladera Ranch or in South Orange County, so t...